Amid a sharp rise in AI-powered cyberattacks and growing compliance pressures, Bharti Airtel ’s enterprise arm Airtel Business has launched Airtel Secure Workforce, positioning it as India’s first fully-managed and unified Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) security platform for enterprises.
The launch comes at a time when cybersecurity threats are escalating in scale and sophistication, with more than two million cybersecurity incidents reported in 2025 alone. Enterprises are increasingly facing challenges around securing hybrid workforces, managing fragmented security tools and addressing talent shortages in cybersecurity operations.
Unified security stack for hybrid enterprises
Airtel Secure Workforce is designed to provide enterprises with an integrated, compliance-ready security framework that protects users, devices, applications, networks and data through a single managed platform.
Powered by Airtel’s pan-India network and backed by 24×7 expert monitoring, the platform combines secure connectivity with managed cybersecurity services. The company said the solution is built to support compliance requirements under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act through audit-grade logs, data movement controls and structured incident workflows.
The platform also offers enterprises a unified dashboard that provides visibility across networks, endpoints, users and data. It additionally enables monitoring of unsanctioned cloud and AI applications, helping enterprises tighten governance and improve incident response capabilities.
Airtel eyes cost optimisation through managed security
Airtel Business CEO Sharat Sinha said enterprises are under mounting pressure to secure users and devices against increasingly targeted AI-driven attacks.
“Enterprises today are under mounting pressure to protect end users and devices in the constantly-evolving, targeted, AI-powered attacks. Building on our leadership in secure connectivity and cybersecurity, we have designed Airtel Secure Workforce to protect users, data and devices anytime, anywhere,” he said.
He added that the platform’s unified security approach can help enterprises optimise up to 30% of their security spends while reducing the operational burden of managing multiple cybersecurity vendors and tools.
Focus on zero trust and operational simplicity
Built on a resilient Zero Trust Architecture framework, Airtel Secure Workforce aims to replace fragmented multi-vendor security deployments with an integrated system that strengthens endpoint detection, response and remote access security.
The company said the platform is specifically designed to address common enterprise pain points such as alert fatigue, operational complexity and increasing cybersecurity management costs.
As part of the rollout, Airtel Business has also launched the Airtel Secure Workforce Centre of Excellence (CoE), a live environment hosted on Airtel Cloud where enterprises can experience and evaluate the platform before large-scale deployment.